Lacing for shoes, &amp;c.



om 0 9 1 4 1 Y L U J D E T N E T A P o & 8 nm H S F G WN I C A L APPLICATION FILED OUT. 13. 1902.

H0 MODEL.

wlznesls e3.-

mi Noam PEIERS c0, mom-Una, WASHINGTON, n. c

UNITED STATES Patented July 14, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

'LACING FORSHOES, etc.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 733,837, dated July I4, 1908. Application filed 0mm 13,1902. sesame-127.025. moment) and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laoings for Shoes, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lacings for shoes, corsets, 850., having tips or tags of flexible material, such as sheet metal.

The invention has for its objects to provide a construction whereby the tip or tag may be so firmly secured to the material of the lacing as to prevent any possibility of detachment.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a plan view ofthe blank employed in making the preferred form of my improved tip. Fig. 2 represents a plan view showing a flat lacing laid upon the blank and the teeth of the blank rolled inwardly toward the body of the blank and into the edge portions of the lacing. Fig. 3 represents an enlarged section on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. at represents a side view of the completed tip and a portion of the lacing projection therefrom. Fig. 5 represents a section on line 6 6 of Fig. 4 enlarged to the scale shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 represents a view similar to Fig. 1, showing a modification in the form of the teeth on the blank. Fig. 7 represents a view similar to Fig. 4, showing the tip provided with circumferential corrugations. Fig. 8 represents a modified form of tip.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, a represents a flat lacing, and b represents a flexible blank, preferably of sheet metal, adapted to be formed into a tip I), inclosing an end portion of the lacing. The blank I) isprovided at one or both edges with outwardly-projecting teeth b which extend crosswise of the length of the lacing and are adapted to be rolled over inwardly toward the body of the blank, their points being thus caused'to penetrate the edge portions of the lacing, as shown in Figs. 2and 3. The blank, with its teeth thus engaged with the edge portions of the lacing, is rolled into tubular form,

the blank into a tube causes the points of the teeth to diverge from the line of their bases outwardly toward the interior of the tube, as clearly shown in Fig. 5.

It will be seen that the described formation of the blank into a tubular tip containing teeth which extend crosswise of the length of the tip and are embedded firmly in the edge portions thereof insures a firm and durable engagement between the tip and lacing and prevents any possibility of the stripping of the tip from the lacing. The construction is such that the operations required in engaging the tip with the lacing and completing the tip may be performed quickly and effectively by machinery with the minimum of expense for hand-labor.

I prefer to provide the blank with serrations b at its outer end, said serrations being so formed that when the blank is converted into a tip and the serrations are bent inwardly they will form a tapered closure b at the outer end of the tip, this closure giving the tip a neat finish.

In Fig. 7 I show the completed tip corrugated to increase its hold upon the inclosed portion of the lacing. As here shown, the tip is provided with alternating circumferential grooves b and ridges b, forming independent corrugations; but it is obvious that the tip may be provided with a spiral groove, giving it a single spiral corrugation.

In Fig. 6 I show a blank in which the teeth 19 are formed so that they are inclined or oblique relatively to the length of the blank. This form enables the teeth to more effectively resist a strain on the tip tending to strip it from the lacing.

It will be seen that the toothed edges of the blank are by the rolling operation hereinbee fore described first engaged with the material of the lacing, as shown in Fig. 4, and the contin nation of the rolling operation also rolls up the material with the blank to the form shown in Fig. 6. It is therefore only necessary to lay the material on the blank and then by a single rolling operation engage the loo teeth of the blank with the material and roll with a serrated end forming a tapered closure up both the blank and the material inclosed at the outer end of the tip, the material of 20' therein. the lacing being rolled up with the blank.

I claim- 3. A lacing and a tip therefor, the latter be- 1. A lacing and a tip therefor, the latter being composed of a flexible blank having teeth ing composed of a flexible blank provided at each edge rolled inwardly toward the body with outwardly-projecting teeth at each edge of the blank into the material of the lacing, 2 rolled inwardly toward the body of the blank the blank being bent into a tube and corruinto the material of the lacing, the blank begated to increase the hold of the tip on the IQ ing formed into a tube inclosing the correinclosed portion of the lacing, the material of spending portion of the lacing and the teeth, the lacing being rolled up with the blank. the material of the lacing being rolled up with In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig-. 0 the blank. natnre in presence of two witnesses.

2. Alacing and a tip therefor, the latter ber v :5 ing composed of aflexible blank having teeth WILLIAM FRANKLIN HALL at each edge rolled inwardly toward the body \Vitnesses: of the blank into the material of the lacing, O. F. BROWN, the blank being bent into a tube and provided E. BATCHELDER. 

